What is recorded here

Doire Mhór Thiar holds a circular hut site beside a ringfort on the coastal strip below Derrymore Island. Its stone collapse still marks a thirteen metre circle, narrow enough for one household yet wide enough to resist forgetting. The bay and Slieve Mish frames that small address, while the vanished resident lives only in the shape left behind.

A ringfort (KE037-005----) and hut-site (KE037-005001-) situated at the base of Derrymore Island on the level coastal strip between Tralee Bay and the N slopes of the Slieve Mish mountains. The circular hut-site lies in the W portion of this raised area. Its wall is now represented by a circular band of stone collapse, 13.3m in overall diameter, which encloses an area 6m in diameter and also filled with stone. The bank is about .4m high and from c. 2 to 5m wide. A single course of what may be the inner wall face is visible for a length of 2m at SE. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 664. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

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